Prefiguration's of Baptism
"And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" Genesis 1:2
What is Creation?
In our spiritual bath all sin is forgiven, original and personal.
What is Baptism?
We offer ourselves “as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God” and serve our domestic church.
What is the lay priesthood?
This substance is essential for life and in baptism washes away our sins.
What is water?
An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ, entrusted to the Church to give us Sanctifying Grace.
What is a Sacrament?
People were so sinful that God decided to recreate and cleanse the world
What is the Flood?
Baptism imprints upon us a Permanent Spiritual Mark. (CCC 1272)
What is an Indelible Mark of the Holy Spirit?
A messenger of God revealing the Good News to the world.
What is a Prophet?
A common symbol of the Holy Spirit in Scripture and many Sacred Art paintings.
What is the Dove?
These sacraments initiate us into the intimate life of the Holy Trinity and also make us members of the Church (CCC 1212)
What are the Sacraments of Initiation.
In the Exodus, the Israelite people were free from slavery.
What is the Crossing of the Red Sea?
The supernatural gift from God's that gives our soul a new and eternal life, making us His adopted sons and daughters.
What is Sanctifying Grace?
We build up God's kingdom, the Church, by protecting and providing physical and spiritual services.
What is a King?
A relic of the new clothes worn by Christians after baptism in the first centuries which symbolizes that we have “put on Christ”.
What is the White Garment?
The Source and Summit of our Catholic Faith.
What is The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist?
People of God received the gift of land promised to Abraham’s descendants
What is The Crossing of the Jordan?
Our fallen nature leaves us with a tendency to sin.
What is Concupiscence?
A part of the communion of saints on earth who are in spiritual battle with Satan.
What is the Church Militant?
The parents and godparent trace this on the child's forehead to show the baby belongs to Christ as well as a call for God’s Protection.
What is the Sign of The Cross?
These sacraments heal us both spiritually from sin and help us cope with physical suffering.
What are the Sacraments of Healing? Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick
This baptism, by John the Baptist, signaled a new beginning for the world...A New Creation and making the water Holy.
What was the baptism of Jesus Christ?
In Baptism we receive the 3 Theological Virtues.
What are Faith, Hope & Charity?
Members of the Communion of Saints in purgatory and heaven.
What is the Church Suffering and the Church Triumphant?
In Baptism it is a sign of sealing in the Holy Spirit and in the Old Testament was used to anoint a king.
What is the Sacred Chrism Oil?
These two sacraments of vocation are directed towards the salvation of others and helping to build up the People of God.
What are Holy Matrimony and Holy Orders?